Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts

Thursday, March 15, 2012

How to Clear Your Google Search History (Before the New Privacy Policy Activates)

March 1st marks the date when Google’s new unified privacy policy takes effect, and once the new privacy policy goes live, Google will be able to combine all of your search history with each of your Google profiles, and use it to target you with (in their opinion) better search results as well as advertisements. Google’s terms of service are also changing, but only so that the legibility of them read much more transparently.


Google is implementing these changes because they want to make their 70-odd individual privacy policies and terms of service simpler, and for the benefits of their millions of users they are trimming the fat and making these agreements much more digestible. By having far fewer pages to read and agree to, Google is ensuring the safety of their users by not masking any vague details that will allow any malicious activity that you would expect a behemoth company to do.


Clearing your entire search history is very simple and straightforward, but be sure to note that you will have to do this for every unique Google account you own, should you wish to clear them all.


Step One: Sign into your desired Google account.


Step Two: In the address bar of your browser, click this link, or copy and paste this URL in a new window and hit enter: https://google.com/history


 


Step Three: Click “Remove all Web History”


 


Step Four: Click “Ok”, and you’re all done!


Your privacy is important while browsing the Internet, and whether or not you agree with Google’s new methodology of search result delivery and targeting ads, it’s important to know you have the option to remain as private as Google will possibly allow you to be. You should also know that Google Chrome has a private-browsing feature as well, called “incognito mode”.


Interested in making your Google experience better? Check out this Hack College Infographic that allows you to get the most out of Google by enhancing your search operators to finding exactly what you may be looking for: Getting More Out Of Google.


A big thanks to EFF for pointing this out.


If you have other great Google tips, feel free to send them my way via email: greg[at]hackcollege.com.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Get a FREE VPN connection to hide your privacy

Hiding your privacy is extremely important in some cases while surfing on the internet. There are some methods for surfing on the internet anonymously such as using proxy and connecting to Virtual Private Network (VPN). You can use these methods for accessing any blocked websites in your country, school, institute or organization. For example, in your institute they have blocked facebook, Virtual Private Network can be used for accessing facebook. In this method, your actual IP Address will be hidden so that anyone can't identify your IP Address. Nowadays, there is a PROMOTION on vpnod.com for providing VPN connection for everyone, so you can connect to their VPN for free of charge. Visit their website from below link.



Link 
In order to register for VPN, you need to do is send an email to promotion@vpnod.com with subject vpnod and empty the body field of the mail.
Hence, vpnod instantly send your an email containing your login details for configuring a VPN.
Let us see how to configure a VPN connection with these details.so, I am using windows 7 operating system for this task. At the beginneing, go to the Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center.
Here, click on the Set up a new connection or network .
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Select the  Connect to a workplace option and click Next to continue.

Select the No,create a new connection option and click Next to continue.

Then, press the Use my Internet connection (VPN).
Enter the internet address as vpn.vpnod.com and Destination name as VPNOD as shown in figure above.
Enter your username and password which you got from the email from vpnod.com. Then, create the connection. Now, you can click on the Network icon in the taskbar, it will display all the network connections including vpn.vpnod.com Now, you can connect to the VPNOD connection by click connect button under the VPNOD. If you can want, you can check your IP Address from http://whatismyipaddress.com/
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